DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Robert Taylor in a trailer provided by FEMA, in front of his storm-damaged home on February 12, 2022. John at a protest the group held near the Fifth Ward Elementary School on October 18, 2017. Every stage of natural gas production and distribution releases methane pollution, a powerful greenhouse gas. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017. The complex contains a circuit board of pipes and steel tanks that cough out steam, flames and toxic substances as it creates the building blocks for plastic from natural gas liquids.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. Children return home from school in Channelview, Texas.

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Grist

AUGUST 26, 2020

Very many of us were alarmed and held expectations about his tenure lower than the Mariana Trench,” recalled John Walke, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s clean air, climate, and clean energy program. In one interview, he went so far as to suggest that reducing ozone levels might result in worse public health outcomes. “I

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